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This is the fourth installment in our twelve-part A year Outstanding Series, where we share quotes, affirmations, and interesting facts to inspire your outstanding inner self every month of the year.
The first full month of spring is finally upon us. Though often thought of as a month of wet and rainy weather, April symbolizes renewal and rebirth. Poets and writers have long considered the month’s wetness akin to a kind of “thawing” of winter’s frozen landscape. Similarly, water brings life, and so does April bring the birth of new flora to support a whole ecosystem of animal life emerging from hibernation or returning from migration. Indeed, April is a consequential month for nature.
Beyond that, human culture has infused April with layers of additional meaning by means of various rituals and holidays celebrated during this month. April Fools’ Day is perhaps the most notorious of April’s holidays. Celebrated on the first of April, April Fools’ Day is broadly accepted as a time to engage in good-hearted pranks and trickery. Overall, it’s a reminder not to take ourselves too seriously, to let loose and have a little fun.
Here is our collection of our absolute favorite quotes and interesting facts about the month of April.
April Fools’ Day Quotes
April First: The day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. — Mark Twain
Some people can’t be fooled on April Fool’s Day because they were fooled too many times during their entire lifetime. — Akash B Chandran
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. — Charles Lamb
Why are people so tired on April 1st? Because they just finished a 31-day March. — Unknown
April Fools gone past, and you’re the biggest fool at last. — Unknown
APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. ― Ambrose Bierce
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool’s sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it. ― Alan Alda
Quotes About April Showers
April showers bring forth May flowers. — Proverb
Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers. — Byron Caldwell Smith
If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May. — Buddy de Sylva
April weather, rain and sunshine both together. — English Country Saying
Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day! — W. H. Gibson
April splinters like an ice palace. — Ruth Stone
April Quotes About Sunshine
But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm. ― William Cowper
I shine in tears like the sun in April. ― Cyril Tourneur
A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow’s warning, Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue– An April day in the morning. — Harriet Prescott Spofford
April Quotes About Tax Day
The tantalizing scent transported me to a white, sandy beach lapped by a turquoise sea under a tropical sun. Lime and coconut were the getaway flavors my bakery customers needed in April, tax time. — Judith Fertig
April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They’ll give you the same advice that they’ve given hundreds of corporations – taxes are for douche bags. — Ed Helms
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. — Ronald Reagan
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. — Thomas Sowell
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail. — P. J. O’Rourke
April Quotes About Spring
With the coming of spring, I am calm again. — Gustav Mahler
April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden. — Marty Rubin
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. — Christopher Morley
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s Party!” — Robin Williams
You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming. — Pablo Neruda
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. — Doug Larson
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants” — Dorothy Parker
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Spring would not be spring without bird songs. — Francis M. Chapman
April Quotes About Celebrations
We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It’s the day I was born. My mother’s birthday, and a lot of my friends’ birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date. — Beyonce
April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea. — Anne Wojcicki
April is a promise that May is bound to keep. — Hal Borland
Poetic April Quotes
Sweet April’s tears
Dead on the hem of May.
— Alexander Smith
April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April. — Angus Wilson
When bullying April bruised mine eyes
With sleet-bound appetites and crude
Experiments of green, I still was wise
And kissed the blossoming rod.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
April this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ago
Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
Dazzling mud and dingy snow;
Hepaticas that pleased you so
Are here again, and butterflies.
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.
— Robert Frost
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. — William Cullen Bryant
For April sobs while these are so glad
April weeps while these are so gay
Weeps like a tired child who had
Playing with flowers, lost its way.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn
Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May
New blooming blossoms ‘neath the sun are born
And all poor April’s charms are swept away.
— John Clare
April Quotes From Literature
We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth… It has no day. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. — George Orwell
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — T.S. Eliot
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. — William Shakespeare
The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh to be in England now that April’s there. — Robert Browning
Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts. ― Barbara Kingsolver
April. Month of dust and lies. — Naguib Mahfouz
Again the blackbirds sings; the streams
Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams
And tremble in the April showers
The tassels of the maple flowers.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
The children with the streamlets sing,
When April stops at last her weeping
And every happy growing thing
Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.
— Lucy Larcom
Every tear is answered by a blossom
Every sigh with songs and laughter blent
April-blooms upon the breezes toss them
April knows her own, and is content.
— Susan Coolidge
When April winds
Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush
Of scarlet flowers
The tulip tree, high up
Opened, in airs of June, her multitude
Of golden chalices to humming birds
And silken-wing’d insects of the sky.
— William Cullen Bryant
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads ’em. ― Thomas Otway
Interesting Facts About April
April’s zodiac signs are Aries (March 21 – April 19) and Taurus (April 20-May 20).
April is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Romans named “April” for the latin Aprillis, meaning “to open.” While its original derivation is unknown, it is widely believed to be so named as an allusion to opening flowers.
Though not an official holiday, April 1st is celebrated around the world as April Fools’ Day.
April 15 is Tax Day in the United States, the deadline by which all U.S. wage earners must submit their annual income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
April ends on the same day of the week as December every year, even in leap years.
The birthstone for April is the diamond.
April’s birth flowers are the Daisy and the Sweet Pea.
